Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and influence intervention effectiveness. To test our model's predictions, we...

Front Cover -- Handbook of Environmental Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- 1 Modeling coupled climate, ecosystems, and economic systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Coupled Ecological/Economic Modeling for Robustness -- 2.1 Robust Control...

Traditional energy technologies and consumer products contribute to household well-being in diverse ways but also often harm household air quality. We review the problem of household air pollution at a global scale, focusing particularly on the harmful effects of traditional cooking and heating....

Handbook in Environmental Economics, Volume 4, the latest in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely chapters on Modeling Ecosystems and Economic Systems, Framing Sustainability Policy Questions: Who Leads – Ecology or Economics?,...